Grants

• Morgan State University, the historically black educational institution in Baltimore, received a $321,000 grant from the Travelers Foundation to increase the number of African-American and other minority students pursuing careers in the actuarial sciences.

• The William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi received a $400,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The grant will support the institute’s Truth Project, which is conducting research on racially motivated crimes committed in Mississippi between 1945 and 1975.

• Benedict College, the historically black educational institution in Columbia, South Carolina, received an $83,000 grant to help teachers and public school students in two counties to improve writing skills.

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